The authors of a large, long term study conclude that pescatarianism and vegetarianism have an association with a reduced risk of ischemic heart disease, but they note that vegetarians have a slightly higher risk of stroke. A new, large scale study places the health effects of vegetarianism under the microscope once again. Over recent years,…
“I’m excited!” screamed Desmond Napoles, a 12-year-old drag star who performs as Desmond is Amazing, punctuating his enthusiasm with mild profanity. His eyes darted to his phone. Then he backtracked. “Don’t put that in. Don’t put that in.” He would soon be grounded from Snapchat by his mother for what she called “sass.” Desmond and…
In his later years, the master artist Francisco Toledo, who died Thursday at 79, developed a fondness for making kites. He decorated them with stencils of grasshoppers, turtles and shrimp, and prints of elephants with monkeys and skeletons, exhibiting a playfulness that simmered below the surface of much of his work and life. But even…
Experts have long associated sedentary lifestyles with poor health outcomes, but a recent study was a little more specific. It found that those who had led a physically inactive life for at least 20 years had a twofold greater risk of premature death when compared with physically active people. New research suggests that 2 decades…
Ann Bryant’s phone rings all season long. She has four phones, actually, in her Homewood, Calif., home office, and they ring 24 hours a day. “Sometimes all at once,” says the executive director of the Bear League, a community-based nonprofit that aims to educate the human public about their animal neighbors. Its tagline: “People living…
One of the biggest makers of generic opioids in the United States has reached a tentative settlement of claims to avoid the first federal trial of drug makers, distributors and retail chains for their roles in the opioid epidemic. Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, a company investigators for the Drug Enforcement Administration once referred to as “the kingpin…
Medical experts and federal health officials on Friday warned the public about the dangers of vaping and discouraged using the devices as the number of people with a severe lung illness linked to vaping more than doubled to 450 possible cases in 33 states and the number of deaths rose to five. The Indiana Department…
ImageThe new store Stranger Wines in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.CreditJulia Gillard A New (Natural) Neighborhood Wine Store It was one night around two years ago when Dennis “DJ” McNany — who formerly ran the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, wine institution Uva — went down to the neighborhood restaurant Marlow & Sons, where he saw its owner, his friend Andrew…
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Josh Christie, co-owner of Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Me., has signed many a document before a book’s release. But few have come with as many Gilead-like stipulations as the affidavit for the sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Mr. Christie committed not only to keeping “The Testaments” in a monitored and locked location, but also…